Had my 13 year old watch M*A*S*H
Posted by newtreeguy@reddit | GenX | View on Reddit | 458 comments
He said he didn't get the jokes. I realized that most of the humor revolves around knowing the characters.
What's something you tried to show the younglings that didn't land?
Sorry_Challenge_4179@reddit
I was going to show them an American tail and then decided they didn't need my nightmares
Kodiak01@reddit
For nightmare creation, The Secret of NIMH was always a good go-to.
Sorry_Challenge_4179@reddit
True
moonharrier42@reddit
Blazing Saddles
Kodiak01@reddit
This is another one that when I saw it in the theater during it's recent re-release, it just didn't hit the same way.
FLZooMom@reddit
This one! I showed it to my daughter when she was about 30 and she almost died because of the jokes.
Uberbons42@reddit
I showed my daughter the little mermaid and she thought it was horrendous. The thought of giving up her life for some random dude horrified her. Which is valid.
sysaphiswaits@reddit
In the original fairytale she literally loses her soul.
Uberbons42@reddit
I know! Turned to sea foam and all that. So messed up.
guru42101@reddit
That's you're own fault, you already taught her the point of the story. š
Uberbons42@reddit
I loved that movie. All I said was āthis is one of my favorite movies, you have to see it.ā But yeah. She was right.
im_dead_sirius@reddit
Horrified me too, at that age. I belong to me.
I remember going to my aunt and uncles weddings in the 70s. Listening to the ceremony, I'd be thinking "No no no." Not for me, not even that much of a sacrifice.
Needless to say, I never married.
nogwart@reddit
I convinced my 16 year old daughter and her boyfriend to watch Caddyshack with me. They did not so much as smirk, smile or mildly chuckle even once throughout the entire movie.
dragonchilde@reddit
Throw out the whole child.
GTA4EVER1069@reddit
Have him listen to the theme song with the lyrics...
https://youtu.be/niMNRW1iZEg?si=WGMm0HF6HqQZL6Rm
Kodiak01@reddit
That just reminded me about the story regarding Gene Roddenberry and the Star Trek theme; he wrote lyrics for it just so he could collect partial royalties on it every time it played.
LuckyAd2714@reddit
I didnāt understand MASH until o was an adult
GB24Hours@reddit
Anything Monty Python. But specifically Holy Grail.
Kodiak01@reddit
Loved it all those years ago. When it came back around in the theater a couple of years ago, I went and saw it... and it just didn't hit the same anymore.
herbwannabe@reddit
Tbf, my guy friends had us watch holy grail as teenagers and none of us girls really found it funny. It wasnt until i was drunk in college and watched it that it really clicked. Now i quote it :)
dolwedge@reddit
My teenagers loved Holy Grail and quote it regularly.
JadedAd6614@reddit
My 6 year old grandneice didnāt like the Jem cartoon. I was like Whhhaaattt?
https://i.redd.it/gpqnetoszv3h1.gif
Temporary_Nail_6468@reddit
So I just looked it up and found that Thundercats is available to watch on Disney+ and I want my boys to watch it with me but Iām afraid they wonāt like it and itāll spoil it for me.
rokken70@reddit
Army of Darkness. My nephew thought it was too weird.
Just-Challenge-5522@reddit
Omg my kids were the same. It made me sad.
moopet@reddit
This is why I don't want kids. Too scared they'll be wrong about everything.
Just-Challenge-5522@reddit
Grtpumk369@reddit
My daughter discovered it at 20, binged he whole series over a summer and used it to write a few college papers (film major). I was able to get her a signed script for Xmas that year and now weāre trying to get all the seasons on dvd, which is harder than you think. It was great to see her embrace it so completely.
puddycat20@reddit
It took me all of 20 seconds to find a dvd boxset of the whole series for around $50.
Grtpumk369@reddit
Thank you, she prefers to thrift them, she loves to see what she can find.
rieldilpikl@reddit
See? Thatās just way too many of my precious seconds wasted on impossibly difficult online searches ffs. Not nearly instant enough for me and my expected gratifications
winter_laurel@reddit
Alan Alda had a fabulous podcast. He explores a lot of different subjects but he touches on AI from time to time, and he had AI generate a MASH script and the guy who played Hunnicut came onto the podcast and they did a reading. It was such a good episode! Hereās the clip https://youtu.be/M8Y1llHJmS8?si=WPNm8If7-g9rI4Du
BrandnerKaspar@reddit
Gotta find it without the laugh track. It is out there.
Iko87iko@reddit
Davey & Goliath
blaspheminCapn@reddit
ET. My kids hated it.
Spiritual-Theory@reddit
Didn't age well
ShiniSenko@reddit
Just watched Akira with the teenage, she wasn't that into it, even with explaining. I want to watch GitS next.
AdditionalTip865@reddit
My kid really did not like Raiders of the Lost Ark. Evidently something that was conceived as a nostalgic throwback entertainment in the early 1980s is just a bridge too far.
AdditionalTip865@reddit
(I'm more surprised at some of the things she DID enjoy, in hindsight: I did not expect 1960s Star Trek to land at all, but she enjoyed "Mirror, Mirror" and "Arena" quite a lot. Star Trek: TNG "The Best of Both Worlds" was a hit too.)
AdditionalTip865@reddit
(Also: "Alien" was a 100% success. She hasn't seen "Aliens" yet, but I wouldn't be surprised if that actually dates worse for her, given that it's an 80s action movie at heart.)
VanillaHuel@reddit
Showed them the intro to original Land of the Lost. "It's so fake!" they exclaimed in amazement at the raft scene special effects.
whitneylh14@reddit
How could anyone ever think those Sleestaks were anything but 100% authentic? I mean honestly. šš
Independent_Wrap_321@reddit
FAKE?? I beg to differ, itās just a routine expedition after all.
Duke-Guinea-Pig@reddit
This was quite a while ago, but my millennial cousin saw the muppet show and said "wait, is this a spin off of muppet babies?"
She didn't like it, but to be fair it was the musical number by the guest star
EverythingScrolling@reddit
We're doomed, aren't we?
jecapobianco@reddit
When Tainted Love hit the airwaves in 1981/82ish I thought it was a great song, it was until 42 years later that I learned it was a remake of a 1960s song.
CrowGeneral8673@reddit
Happened to me with I think weāre alone now
jecapobianco@reddit
The Go Gos?
CrowGeneral8673@reddit
Tiffany covered the song that was originally by Tommy James and the Shondells
archedhighbrow@reddit
Little House on the Prairie. It tanked and there was the whole series on DVD to share. I will say that my kids ate up The Brady Bunch and The Bionic Woman.
PM_ME_YOUR_TANK@reddit
My wife and 18yr old daughter have been watching it for about a month, my daughter absolutely loves it.
MuddyPig168@reddit
The Waltons.
Environmental-Car481@reddit
Gremlins
gunner23_98@reddit
I never liked M*A*S*H as a kid. My theory is most people just watched it because their parents had it on.
Environmental-Car481@reddit
I was just telling my husband about hating Godzilla and kung fu movies and MASH when I was a kid. But then liking MASH as an adult. Still not into Godzilla or kung fu
1989DiscGolfer@reddit
I haven't been able to get Monty Python's Flying Circus to land with my young adult and late teen kids yet. It has me worried!
WinnerAwkward480@reddit
Run Away Run Away
dB_Manipulator@reddit
It's an acquired taste for sure
Darkroomist@reddit
Had my sons watch Red Dawn with me. I even explained that, at the time, we thought this was a glimpse into an inevitable future. A reckoning between capitalism and communism decades in the making.
They thought it was lame. I blame the sound effects which sound more like old western gun shots than John Wick. They said it was basically plot holes.
LiquidSoCrates@reddit
I remember watching Red Dawn in the theater. I kept wondering why the Ruskies or Cubans would invade a hick town like that.
tkingsbu@reddit
John Hughes movies.
My wife and I loved them.
Our kids? āwtf??? Why are these movies so rapey??? wtf was going on in the 80s???
āā
To be fair, they arenāt wrong.
ShockedNChagrinned@reddit
My 15 yr old liked the Breakfast Club and Sixteen Candles, fwiw
LitlThisLitlThat@reddit
We just showed the youngest Pretty in Pink and I realized with her that Blain sucks and she should have ended up with Duckie
Sitcom_kid@reddit
that's how they originally wrote the show. it's common to change the ends if focus groups freak out. it happened for pretty woman and several others.
The unique situation about Pretty in Pink is that the accompanying novel had already been published and it has a different ending. it has the one you described.
whatsupwillow@reddit
I bought the book and was SO confused at the ending. Obviously, I learned later what happened, but I felt like I was duped (because I wanted the book to match my memory of the movie).
Sitcom_kid@reddit
I wonder what it felt like for people who read the book first
Heyhey-_@reddit
They might be BUT the script, acting and cinematography are better than most teen movies now. I think that the only exceptions from the trashy movies might be the ones that are made for theater and not Netflix for example.
Former-Crazy-9224@reddit
My daughter was mortified by all the trauma on Little House on the Prairie. I always saw it as so happy, definitely different through her eyes.
bene_gesserit_mitch@reddit
Donāt start with the rapey clown episode.
itwasdolly@reddit
I must have blanked that ep out. I was horrified when Mary's glasses started the prairie fire.
bene_gesserit_mitch@reddit
It was a later episode with Albert and his girlfriend. Helped to foster my fear of clowns.
thatotterone@reddit
It's odd, isn't it?
While our generation was definitely told to hold onto our youth for as long as we could..it was our choice.
somewhere between here and there, we started enforcing youth by being very protective and in 80% of cases, this is great! We knew where our children were and who they were with...but we also censored reality for them a bit too much. Little House on the Prairie prided itself on taking on tough issues and most other tv shows did the same...at least once a year for the "Special-we-hope-to-win-an-emmy-Episode"
remember when Different Strokes had a scam photographer trying to get the teen girl character to pose nude? That was repeated on Facts of Life, Family Ties, Silver Spoons, Webster, Growing Pains, CHiPs, and many an afternoon special. (and FAME) In an odd way, we were more prepared by this PSA tv format to avoid cell phone nudes than our children were. And to be aware of internet fishing...
And that was just one sensitive topic. I'm not surprised your daughter saw all the trauma in it. But I do, generally, think seeing that helped prepare us...somewhat?
BokChoyJr@reddit
I was shocked when Mr. Carlson from WKRP tried to molest Arnold and Dudley.
thatotterone@reddit
That episode is so rough that I just got shivers thinking about it. The Bicycle Man. When I read my partner my post above, we both started talking about that episode specifically. The trust your gut if you think something is wrong and go tell someone message
Illustri-aus@reddit
I was horrified by some of the later eps as a kid watching it first run. I swear there's a father who was molesting his own daughter in one of the last seasons?? Probably been removed from re-runs now, most likely
Temporary_View_3303@reddit
I had my son watch Greatest American Hero with me and we both left embarrassed. Ā It doesnāt hold up well. Ā
mhoner@reddit
How so? I just ask so I donāt fall into that trap
Temporary_View_3303@reddit
The acting and āhumorā is just SO bad. Ā
Mindless-Baker-7757@reddit
Bummer. I loved that show.Ā
heynow941@reddit
Bummer. I love the premise of the show even if it was dumb. It was a clever quirky idea.
perseidot@reddit
My 8th grade math teacher looked exactly like that guy. Anytime he came into the classroom after we students were already in there, we all hummed the theme song while he got ready to teach š
Unkindly-bread@reddit
My 25yo son was quoting Airplane the other day and laughing his ass off while doing so. He also loves Monty Python.
His twin sister and younger sister think weāre both dorks and donāt get it.
ItsGotToMakeSense@reddit
They couldn't get into E.T at all, seemed bored (maybe I'll try again now that they've seen Stranger Things)
They thought Ghostbusters was just OK and were not scared by it at all; some of the special effects aged really poorly. That library ghost scared the shit out of me at 5 years old, but they laughed at it.
They loved Gremlins and the Neverending Story, and they liked Labyrinth but it didn't become an instant favorite
GoldenMonkeyRedux@reddit
My kid really likes Paul Thomas Anderson films. Ā I find that really weird because i want to watch Dumb & Dumber.
What kid loves Magnolia?
Fudloe@reddit
I always hated that show. Something about the entire vibe of it turned me off.
However, the movie is in my top 5 dessert island movies.
Key-Contest-2879@reddit
āBjork to Black Sabbath, Eraserhead to Summer School.ā
Sounds like a well rounded kid! š
silgryphon@reddit
Mash put me to sleep
Repulsive-Ice8395@reddit
The theme song was my signal to go to bed.
tiltedsun@reddit
Animal House. I think itās because later movies lifted some of the gags.
The use of Bernstein music was a novelty at the time, which immediately set an odd tone for me as a kid.
Sea_Raisin_4802@reddit
Caseyās Shadow completely traumatized my horse crazed kiddo. I thought of it as a great horse tv movie and loved it as a kid. But you know anything filmed in 1978 probably isnāt going to land well. I should have known. Walter Matthau as a down on his luck Louisiana race horse trainer 1978. The front end loader scooping up the dead pony is what got my daughter.
Historical-Ad-1067@reddit
SCTV. The humor is too contemporary. Bob and Doug Mackenzie. Funny. Who the heck is Merv Griffin?
Tommy_Vercetti-4406@reddit
For me it was The Muppets. They could care less, except for "Mahna Mahna"... that one stuck.
ntrrrmilf@reddit
My child HATES The Muppets and I feel like Iāve failed somehow.
Tommy_Vercetti-4406@reddit
You've not failed. Our kids just simply were born into a different world.
VioletSmiles88@reddit
Same, massive bummer.
Repulsive_Client_325@reddit
Basically everything
PublixEnemynumberone@reddit
Everywhere? All at once??
PenTestHer@reddit
Tried to get a younger person to watch Full Metal Jacket. They didnāt find the funny parts to be funny. After a while they just stopped watching.
techparadox@reddit
A lot of the short-run and syndicated shows I watched as a kid/teen and absolutely loved just did not hit with my nieces and nephews. AutoMan, Street Hawk, Manimal, Beauty and the Beast (the Linda Hamilton/Ron Perlman series) - they bounced off all of them. I guess you just had to be there during the time.
Zuri2o16@reddit
I watched ET with my son. I was sobbing at the end, and he looked at me and said, "I'm sorry, but I just can't do it."
Dunno_If_I_Won@reddit
Because it was lame or because he was emotional?
Zuri2o16@reddit
He thought it was lame.
QuietParsnip@reddit
My mom had my sister's kids over and she pulled out their E.T dvd and told them that their mom and aunt loved it at their age (they were around 8-10 at the time).Ā They were sooooo bored, they didn't even finish it.Ā Ā
Apprehensive_Ask_259@reddit
He was bout to cry too
Apprehensive_Ask_805@reddit
Starting at a young age, I got my daughter to agree to a 10-minute rule, that she would give a suggestion of mine at least 10 minutes before deciding to not continue watching it (later, I became subject to the same rule, for her suggestions).
I can only think of two that she opted out of after starting them, because they were too scary, Jaws and American Werewolf in London. To this day, these are on her no-way-never list.
vistaculo@reddit
Thatās why you have to start from the first episode bro
Steerider@reddit
I found MASH terribly boring when I was 13.
Beautiful-Awareness9@reddit
Same and I hated the theme song. Iād change the channel as soon as the music played.
bobj33@reddit
That was exactly my reaction. Then some station started playing reruns at 6:30pm after a show I would watch at 6 and I would instinctively change the channel because I hated the mash theme.
neepster44@reddit
Isnāt that the song titled āSuic*de is Painlessā?
Reader47b@reddit
Ditto.
jf737@reddit
Interesting. My dad watched MASH reruns all the time when I was that age and I loved it.
Universally-Tired@reddit
When she was 3 or 4 she started watching Doctor Who with me and she seemed to enjoy it. She liked a lot of what we did, but she had her Dora too.
Sorry_Challenge_4179@reddit
Oh God I get sick when I think about that scene with the baby
DodgyRogue@reddit
That was a pretty harsh scene, no wonder he was where he was
new2bay@reddit
That was the best episode.
Sorry_Challenge_4179@reddit
Gross. That's sick
gregory92024@reddit
Blazing Saddles did not go over well!
Impossible_Jury5483@reddit
To be fair, Blazing Saddles didn't age well.
puddycat20@reddit
How so. It's literally one of the greatest comedies of all time.
SusanWinters@reddit
You know why
WasabiChickpea@reddit
My teenager didn't think Young Frankenstein was funny at all. She walked out of the room about halfway through.
jecapobianco@reddit
Had she seen any old Frankenstein movies?
WasabiChickpea@reddit
I don't think she has. We had a graphic novel based on the book that she had read a while ago. But really it was the humor that fell flat for her. I'm cracking up, singing "Roll roll, roll in zee hay!" and she didn't even crack a smile
jecapobianco@reddit
I guess it pays to be older and more experienced.
EverythingScrolling@reddit
AJayBee3000@reddit
I laugh just thinking about the āPutting on the Ritzā scene.
Odd_Praline181@reddit
DISOWN!
jfrankparnell85@reddit
BLUCHER! *horses neighingā
Odd_Praline181@reddit
Available-Bison-9222@reddit
My kids thought The Godfather was boring and refused to watch the 2nd one.
Ordinary-Violinist-9@reddit
It is boring as shit.
sysaphiswaits@reddit
I used to fall asleep during that show when I spent the night at my auntās house.
Wonderful-Carpet3518@reddit
I'm so confused. Yep youre gen x, but you expect your kids to understand you and connect with you? you're old as fuck. I say this as a gender. You had kids as as old person. Relate to them as an old person, not as your imagined ideals.
bendingoutward@reddit
I say this as a nongendered abstract concept: get fucked.
Br00klynBelle@reddit
What is wrong with you? There is no need to be so rude! It isnāt a horrible thing to want to connect with your kids, or share things with them that were important to you growing up, and it doesnāt matter how big the age difference is. Some things will land, and some wonāt. My kid has no interest in plenty of tv shows and movies that I loved as a Gen X kid/teen. But my kidās favorite movie of all time? Labyrinth. Favorite bands since birth? The Beatles (thatās right, music of her GRANDPARENTāS generation!)
rendar1853@reddit
Go away.
shoneone@reddit
MASH did not age well. The alcohol, womanizing, they make it feel more real but also really dated.
loCAtek@reddit
You think the troops don't build moonshine stills today?
I know a lot of care packages sent them perfectly legal brewers yeast.
puddycat20@reddit
lol.
mangolamplight@reddit
I'm 48 and I never laughed at it either
East_Relationship722@reddit
Yeah, same here
Elses_pels@reddit
I showed my kids a video of KISS and they said āuh, a gay rock band, very camp arenāt they?ā I was in stitches
ghertigirl@reddit
Coming to America. My son said it was too slow and boring which broke my heart but it does move a lot slower than todayās movies.
moopet@reddit
"Too slow" is the criticism of practically everything now. Meanwhile, here I am enjoying the sorts of old series where bugger all happens for the first few hours.
Elses_pels@reddit
Northern exposure! When I got the disk set I told everyone. āThis is a show where nothing happens ever, you just watch the charactersā
Littleboy_Natshnid@reddit
56M and could not stand mash.
im_dead_sirius@reddit
For a ssecond I wondered was S-6-M meant.
It means I need glasses.
StillC5sdad@reddit
The Ref
Reboot-Glitchspark@reddit
Cop Rock.
Ok, it actually landed exactly as it should have. That was the most ridiculously stupid show ever, with such over-the-top terrible musical scenes.
I think they actually rather enjoyed it, at least making fun of it. Which is exactly what it was for. If you're not saying "What the fuck?! How did this ever get made?" then you're not paying attention.
HeyThereItsKK@reddit
"He's guilty" is a banger! https://youtu.be/xwz4k4n1ezM?si=BwGCXQWiEhM4UuxS
crone_Andre3000@reddit
I recently rewatched recently and I forgot how much Bible/God/Jesus stuff was included in so many episodes...and the jokes did feel a little dated.
CompetitiveForce2049@reddit
It's ten times better with the laugh track off. It becomes more of a dark comedy.
noisician@reddit
is there a way to see MASH without the laugh track?
CompetitiveForce2049@reddit
A friend of mine had the dvd sets and that was an option. Not sure about streaming.
mrsredfast@reddit
Iāve been watching in the mornings on TVLand and only enjoy the early ones. Iād forgotten how heavy and preachy it had gotten, probably because I was young when I watched it.
Cat_Cuddles_@reddit
Put on Princess Bride for my son and his friend (ages 9-10). They made fun of it and said it was boring. Inconceivable!
im_dead_sirius@reddit
Hmm, very odd. Might just be your kids, or their mood in the moment.
I was at Grandma's. The kids of my cousins were acting up, play fighting in the basement, where I was reading a book. While I wasn't exactly egging them on, I was telling the boys that their girl cousins were fighting better than them. So my aunt comes down stairs, went to put on Fievel Goes West. Her go-to solution they'd all seen a million times.
They all groaned. The 12 year old, a girl, grabbed Princess Bride off the shelf and said, "How about this instead?" to which my aunt agreed. The boys stopped play fighting, and the youngest groaned, "That's a girl movie." One of the other boys (the girl's younger brother) grabbed his still younger cousin by the shoulders and said, "No. You have to see this" with big eyes.
I was all for it too, despite being a man pushing 50, partly because of the interactions between cousins, the initiation. I was watching the kids as much as the film!
The kid that protested was engaged the moment he saw Fred Savage's character, about his own age, and sunk into it by the time Buttercup gets kidnapped. When his dad came, "Time to go", the sword fight between Inigo Montoya and The Dread Pirate Roberts was just about to begin.
He begged his dad to let him stay and finish the movie. Some day, he'll tell some younger kid, "You HAVE to see this." It might be his own child.
Syncopated_arpeggio@reddit
I just watched Spaceballs with my 14 year old. Iām not sure he laughed once.
moopet@reddit
I quite enjoy Spaceballs, but to be fair I don't think I've ever laughed at anything from Mel Brooks. The jokes aren't funny at all. The satire works, but the rest is just Home Alone style nonsense.
drahcir2k2@reddit
My 11 year old loved it, she also really liked Blues Brothers! Plus after this weekends road trip her and my 5 year old keep singing āYou know Iām fat, Iām fat!ā
RAConteur76@reddit
Check and see if they've been replaced by a pod person. I can imagine not getting the humor in old sitcoms when you're a generation or two past the original air dates. But Mel Brooks?! Spaceballs is damned near timeless, and you hardly have to have much in the way of sci-fi knowledge to appreciate it.
Affectionate_Pace823@reddit
Mutual of Opkkkkp
s/b noted, could upset some people.
I know it was a different time. 50+ years ago.
Thank goodness for Jane Goodall and work clarifying and validating animals, do in fact, have feelings.
tunaman808@reddit
I've watched several "YouTubers react to Airplane!" videos, and I don't think any of them knew that Barbara Billingsley was June Cleaver from Leave It To Beaver. It's mildly funny that an old white lady is speaking jive, but the fact that it's Beaver Cleaver's mom makes it funny as hell.
I've also seen a couple where they didn't get the "smoking or non-smoking" joke because they're too young to know that you used to be able to smoke on planes:
Oh, and kids don't get the pistachio joke in Naked Gun because pistachios sold in the US generally haven't been dyed red in 30+ years.
moopet@reddit
I watched Airplane as a kid and since I'm not from the US I only found this factoid out recently. I've still no idea what Leave It To Beaver is.
It was a funny scene. You don't need to know all the details - that's what makes it good.
Toby_O_Notoby@reddit
I've also seen people on Reddit not get that Captain Oveur's lines to Joey were gay code. The "ever been to a Turkish prison?" and "do you like movies about Gladiators?" go right over their heads.
razorhack@reddit
I tried showing Gremlins to my niece and nephew. They were 13 and 15. They didn't like, it at all. They mostly found it boring.
johntwoods@reddit
Tell your niece and nephew that I find them to be boring.
moopet@reddit
Their face is boring.
CordeCosumnes@reddit
I didn't care for MASH when I was young, I was a preteen when it ended. I like it better as an older adult.
brianthomas00@reddit
My 23yo and 21 absolutely loved Pee Weeās Big Adventure as little kids. It played non stop on the backseat dvd when we were driving around. I would always say I havenāt really āseenā it in years, but Iāve heard it 100s of times.
Suspicious-Yogurt480@reddit
My 27 year olds favorite movie (PWBA)
Mynky@reddit
Spaceballs, the humour just didnāt land.
mosura1@reddit
Showed Pulp Fiction to our 15 year old. She was traumatized by the adrenaline needle scene. Not our best decision.
TripMaster478@reddit
lol. Indiana Jones. Forgot about the voodoo scene near the end. Whoops.
Impossible_Jury5483@reddit
Voodoo scene?
EBN_Drummer@reddit
Kali-ma! Kali-ma!
Temple of Doom when the Thuggee high priest tries to rip Indy's heart out of his chest.
Sitcom_kid@reddit
tell her they filmed it by pulling it out of her chest and then showing it to us in reverse. it's on the DVD extras. it's the same way they pulled a van right up to Kevin McAllister on home alone without accidentally hitting him. they backed the van up and reversed the film. I hope that helps.
Impossible_Jury5483@reddit
Best Halloween party I ever went to was in a random industrial building where one costume was Mia with the syringe sticking out of her sternum and a guy guy dressed as the unibomber ( hoodie and shades). He'd had a friend put up wanted posters before he arrived.
johntwoods@reddit
Did you and him just, like, start watching from the middle of Season 5?
Hot-Freedom-5886@reddit
My daughter watched Caddy Shack and was horrified. Itās awful now, but it wasnāt in 1980. On the other hand, they loved Young Frankenstein.
puddycat20@reddit
It is NOT awful...good lord...
la_winky@reddit
I e been sharing 80s movies and itās been fun. He loved the breakfast club. We tried Caddyshack and about 15-20 minutes in, he said he was uncomfortable and wanted to turn it off. I was glad to do it. Iād forgotten much of it and it did not age well.
puddycat20@reddit
What was that bad in the first 15 minutes?
PolyDrew@reddit
Neither did cannonball run. I still love it but wow there are so many horrible themes. I try to remember that they intended for the humor to be offensive back then.
Hot-Freedom-5886@reddit
Neither has Animal House, but I still love it!
Wurstb0t@reddit
Fast times at Ridgemont high didnāt hold up with the younger generation, they thought it was pretty cringe with all of the girls being sexualized.
puddycat20@reddit
Like girls today arent sexually active.
SmokedPumpkin@reddit
Theyāre correct. As a woman, I refused to watch it when it came out because it was so clearly sexist. Along with a whole lot of other movies.
cnowakoski@reddit
Well Hawkeye just isnāt funny
sotiredwontquit@reddit
What?! Heās hilarious!
BalrogRuthenburg11@reddit
Growing up I always hated Mash.
ghertigirl@reddit
Saaame. And was my momās nickname and one of her favorite shows
Sudden_Fix_1144@reddit
I did too, and I was an army brat.
Rewatched it a few years ago, and it was okay I guess.
NiceGuy60660@reddit
Try the movie
Juleswf@reddit
We tried Mork and Mindy. Didnāt really ave well. Surprisingly, I Love Lucy was still pretty funny!
stabbingrabbit@reddit
Most John Wayne movies.
dwarling@reddit
Even āThe Conquerorā?! /s
scottiepippen13@reddit
I was 10 when the last episode aired and I hated that show. My step dad would watching it every night during dinner
SwiftKickRibTickler@reddit
there's no accounting for taste, as my elders used to say. I've tried showing my kids a lot of shows that I loved. it's hit and miss. but my 15 y. o. "discovered" MASH on his own and is mad he can't get his friends into it.
looselyhuman@reddit
Tell him to find the theme song with lyrics. Might be edgy enough to draw them in.
perseidot@reddit
āSuicide is Painlessā is a heavy song.
Pendragenet@reddit
I remember it was a question on Name That Tune. My sibling smugly called out The Theme From Mash. I said "no, it's Suicide is Painless". She was furious to find out I was right. We were taught it in band class...
looselyhuman@reddit
For sure. I didn't mean edgy as in "just for the sake of it," but definitely fodder for angsty teens (speaking from experience).
perseidot@reddit
No, no. I gotchu.
I have it on a playlist myself.
3-kids-no-money@reddit
A-team and night rider. Kids just couldnāt get into them. They did like little house on the prairie for a summer.
Taffy_the_wonderdog@reddit
Netflix is doing a Little House reboot. It drops in July.
Pendragenet@reddit
First, MASH was a new thing in tv - a dramedy. It was part serious and part comedy. TV hadn't really ever done that before. You had shows like Hogan's Heroes and McHale's Navy that were just silly little shows - really no different than Gilligan's Island.
But MASH brought more to the table. It showed the effects of war, the tragedy and the senselessness. It showed the people in the war as actual humans not John Wayne tough guys.
It was so much more than the jokes. And the characters weren't caricatures. They were real flawed people.
I grew up on MASH. It showed me that life wasn't black & white. And it showed me that humor is a defense mechanism. It's sad that kids today can't get anything out of it.
Second, I think it's just sad to see comments putting down shows that were important to prior generations. Oh it's so boomer! and such.
I gained so much by being open to what came before. I gained far better sense of humor - not one based on insults and toilet jokes. When I think of the books and movies and music I would have missed by dismissing them as boomer or silent or greatest generation twat, I am grateful my mom encouraged me to explore.
EverythingScrolling@reddit
I think you have to be a little older to appreciate MASH. My parents watched it religiously, both when it aired, and as I was growing up. I didn't hate it, but I didn't seek it out either. Then I fell into it through TV Land marathons, and now I do appreciate it.
I may be in the minority, but I never much cared for Henry Blake. And I thought Charles was a better foil for Pierce and Hunnicutt than Frank.
Pendragenet@reddit
I don't know. I know younger people who watched it faithfully. And I know younger people today who enjoy it.
I think with Henry vs Colonel Potter and Frank vs Charles that the second characters came in after MASH had become such a success as a dramedy. Their characters were allowed to be more real. Henry and Frank were victims of the early years when the writers were fighting to include serious issues. By the time their characters were allowed to have any growth, it was too late. Potter and Charles were able to build on their characters far sooner. HotLips was given more depth from the start - she had to have a backbone to have been in charge of the nurses, so it was easier for her character to grow over time. I think Radar had to leave because his innocent manchild character was too much for them to change. Klinger on the other hand wasn't innocent, so his character could be moved away from the lunatic trying to get a section 8 into a guy stuck in the war and making the best of it.
la_winky@reddit
I watched MASH growing up. The characters were pretty awesomely fleshed out with some depth. But it was still funny.
Remember that the commercial break in the final episode was so watched they estimated some insane number of toilet flushes occurred during that break? Many many people watched it.
Then I was stationed in Korea for two years many years later. Which was cool. Itās a beautiful country and they shot the show in CA? I think? But it did capture the landscape / vibe pretty well.
Pendragenet@reddit
Yeah, they shot it at Malibu Creek State Park in Southern California.
I was so mad that I missed the final episode - it was years before I ever got to see it.
perseidot@reddit
I agree with everything you just said.
Also, the historical context is important. My fatherās a Silent Gen veteran of the war in Korea. He got out as the war in Vietnam was starting - because he wasnāt doing another undeclared land war in SE Asia.
I was born in ā74. The war in Vietnam ended (for the US) in April ā75.
MASH ran from ā72-ā83. Then it ran in reruns for years.
When I watched it with my Dad, he was also thinking about being in Korea and trying to come to terms with that. He didnāt say very much, but sometimes he teared up. Sometimes we talked about the episodes. Sometimes heād talk about (some of!) what they did on leave.
Vietnam vets had it rough coming back to the US. Some people treated the troops as though they were monsters - and some of them had done truly monstrous things.
We needed a way to talk about the humanity of the men and women in uniform, and the inhumanity of war. And the occasional monster.
MASH did that for our parents, and maybe helped us understand them a little better.
Fine-Philosophy8939@reddit
Forced our college kids to watch Animal House and at the end they were most upset by all the exam cheating
Phog_of_War@reddit
I bet the Spies Like Us exam scene would drive them crazy
CrowGeneral8673@reddit
Itās a dickfer
EmperorSkyTiger@reddit
I don't know if it didn't land, but it's one of my cherished memories. My youngest was probably 5 or 6 and REALLY wanted to watch Aliens for some reason. I grew up watching horror movie from a young age, so I explained that it's pretty scary and a little gory at some points. He didn't care. He insisted we watch it together.
We have a cat that picked my kiddo from our local rescue that got named Bishop. Towards the end of the movie, my then little dude asked me to stop the movie to ask me a question:
"Daddy, is our Bishop made of milk too?"
rokken70@reddit
I hated it when I was a kid. But love it now. Itās a masterpiece.
RemyJe@reddit
Holy cow, I did not expect the MAS*H hate. Itās one of the best shows ever. It was funny then and is funny now, and was ahead of its time on a variety of relevant issues.
soonerpgh@reddit
I never really cared for it that much. It wasn't a bad show, just didnt really trip my trigger. The Rockford Files, Simon and Simon, those were my favorites.
1hero_no_cape@reddit
I showed my kids an episode of Fat Albert about 15 years ago.
Totally lost on The Junkyard Gang, I was sad.
SkinTeeth4800@reddit
I used to wish there was a junkyard in my neighborhood! I wanted to play with all the cool junkyard stuff I saw in the show -- like making musical instruments out of discarded junk.
curiousme123456@reddit
Blazing saddles, airplane, 1970ās movies , besides Rocky of course
dicklaurent97@reddit
Blazing Saddles can go either way depending on the kid
celticdove@reddit
My kids loved Airplane! and we regularly quote it.
iSubjugate@reddit
When I found a set of World Book encyclopedias at a yard sale and tried to gift them to my ten year old.
Dippity_Dont@reddit
I think it would be worth it just to have those clear pages (can't remember which volume) you can turn to look at different levels of the human body. Like bones, nerves, etc. I used to be entranced looking at those pages.
iSubjugate@reddit
Ohhhh yeah. That was one of my favorites!
thiswasyouridea@reddit
To do what with? Build a fort?
MrBiscotti_75@reddit
How did that go over ?
iSubjugate@reddit
About like a lead balloon. Which canāt be as heavy as a box of encyclopedias.
Kanya_Mkavry@reddit
I tried to show Blackadder to my daughter. She was not impressed. I even started with season 2.
jfrankparnell85@reddit
Even Bells? āPrepare to be amazedā¦ā
Comedywriter1@reddit
āJust a wild stab in the darkāwhich is incidentally what youāll be getting if you donāt start being more helpful.ā š
Great show. Season 2 was a huge leap forward.
OlderThanIvEverBeen@reddit
The movie or the show?
newtreeguy@reddit (OP)
The show. We started on the episode where they introduce Col. Potter because Klinger explains the dress so I didn't have to
Nice_Point_9822@reddit
I (F55) loved MASH when it was on network TV growing up. When I was pregnant on bed rest in my last two months, I watched it all the time because it was on ALL THE TIME. I never introduced it to my daughter (31now) but she found it in high school and got a little obsessed, she had them all saved on her bedroom DVR and had them playing on rotation. Correlation is not causation but š¤·š¼āāļø
legerdemain07@reddit
I showed my nephew Eddie Murphyās Delirious. It was too homophobic for him. In his defense, heās correct.
thelaineybelle@reddit
You ain't got no ice cream š¦
ladymacbeth999@reddit
...and your father is an alcoholic... Wanna lick? Psyche!
Rays_LiquorSauce@reddit
Wooooo woooooo woooo woooooooooooo šØĀ
battlesong1972@reddit
My son just turned 23, but when he was 17 or 18 we sat down with his best friend and watched Eddie Murphy Raw. I think they were traumatized I the first half hour, but they were rolling by the end of it
GotchUrarse@reddit
My sons, who are now 27, have had Delirious memorized since they where about 12 years old. It's much better than Raw. Half of Raw is refurbished Delirious.
KMack666@reddit
Delirious was better!! And 'Never Scared', Chris Rock's stand up special, FKN hilarious, show them Jim Carey's 'Unnatural Act' too, a classic
REDDITSHITLORD@reddit
The Princess Bride.
Out of its context, it just comes across as a very bland prince charming fantasy with some screwball moments.
Oddly, she absolutely LOVED the 1992 Super Marios Bros.
LadyNorbert@reddit
I was highly disappointed when one of my GenZ coworkers watched it on my recommendation and said basically the same thing.
Her: It was cute and silly.
Me: ...it's the closest any movie has ever come to perfection, even Jeremy at CinemaSins said so.
Rob1150@reddit
I don't know anyone who like the Super Mario Brothers movie that much.
LadyNorbert@reddit
I was talking about The Princess Bride - I see now how it was unclear.
oldfogey12345@reddit
The Princess Bride was a good, bland, silly fairy tale.
The reason that it is beloved is that it is a quote machine.
JRussell_dog@reddit
I'm GenX but somehow never saw this movie until about 2 years ago. Was underwhelmed. Didn't understand what all the fuss was about after hearing about it quoted for decades. Just meh IMHO. Maybe I missed the boat.
oldfogey12345@reddit
The big guy in the movie was a wrestler known for being mean, so his performance was way more entertaining if you knew the wrestler.
Rob1150@reddit
I watched The Wall, literally for the first time this past week and had no idea what it was about. This post is my dad.
battlesong1972@reddit
Oh, I despise that movie
shotsallover@reddit
I think you need to be chemically enhanced to understand it.Ā
Rob1150@reddit
I was
looselyhuman@reddit
It's a long music video. Not a medium known for coherent narratives. It's more a vibe.
Rob1150@reddit
Like Tron:Legacy?
newtreeguy@reddit (OP)
Pink Floyd The Wall?
Rob1150@reddit
Yes.
Soft-Pomelo-4184@reddit
The kid can pause the show and look up anything he doesn't get on his phone. I've don that with old shows and movies. It helps.
KookyComfortable6709@reddit
My kid hated This Is Spinal Tap. š Said it wasn't nice to mock people.
Affectionate-Cow3737@reddit
Bwahaaha- my kids too!
wyohman@reddit
Interesting. Maybe you should help them with the concept of satire?
Couch_Tester@reddit
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Just4kicks19@reddit
Showed the 18 year old mad TV. They did not get it at all.
spargel_gesicht@reddit
Made my 15 year ish younger cousins and their husbands watch Swingers. They didnāt get it. š
alk_adio_ost@reddit
Not even the ending? When the woman is making googly faces at her baby and not Vince Vaughn?!?
Rough crowd!
Inevitable-End2384@reddit
I'm 58. I agree. I hated that show.
CriticalOverThinker@reddit
Gen Z'ers are pretty much clueless, not curious or empathetic, and dont care. They think its all a flex
wyohman@reddit
Did you love Lawrence Welk?
Zesty-B230F@reddit
I had Alexa play "I Touch Myself " by the Divinyls. Had to convince my 20-something family members this was a real song.
wyohman@reddit
Stay away from she-bop
Krinks1@reddit
Did you also bring in zee femBOOOOOTTTS!?
ShockedNChagrinned@reddit
I mean WAP was a radio played hit just 6 years ago.Ā It's not even that level
PahzTakesPhotos@reddit
Our son was in martial arts from age 8 till, well, he's still doing it at 34. My husband thought he would LOVE the Chuck Norris movies he had enjoyed himself. He did not. He was not impressed AT ALL with the Chuck Norris movies. He was mildly entertained by some Bruce Lee stuff.
He got into Bruce Lee when he was older. Never really got into Chuck.
Both_Chicken_666@reddit
Not even Walker, Texas Ranger??
jonpaladin@reddit
it's so bad
Rob1150@reddit
*cue theme music *
medisamurai@reddit
you'd think if nothing else 'lone wolf mcquade' would be entertaining from a bad funny angle
Epicassion@reddit
Good man.
Pattycakes1966@reddit
I had my kids watch Brady Bunch. One of them liked it
EverythingScrolling@reddit
Which episode(s)? The Hawaii episodes are great.
Unless you mean the movies.
Pattycakes1966@reddit
Not the movies. The entire series (until cousin Oliver showed up)
EverythingScrolling@reddit
Wr don't talk about Cousin Oliver.
jenneybearbozo3@reddit
Thatās the one show I never liked. My mom retaliated by never liking Seinfeld.
TinyWeird878@reddit
My son is going for his Eagle Scout badge, so we put on Schoolhouse Rock The Preamble of the Constitution episode. He loved it! We were all singing it for a week. But doggone it he was right back to watching YouTubers play Roblox 30 seconds later. š
reapersaurus@reddit
This generation's addiction to watching other people play games NEEDS to be studied. It's not funny, is a colossal waste of time with endless content, and it's out of control.
peacefinder@reddit
Whereas in our day it was us watching The Wide World of Sports. Championship bowling. Golf.
E-sports do nothing for me as a spectator, but Iām not sure theyāre all that different?
ThatMichaelsEmployee@reddit
Do you watch sports? Or concerts? Watching people play video games is not dissimilar: you're watching people do something entertaining and doing it much, much better than you can do yourself.
I'm in my sixties and I love to watch talented gamers do their stuff on YouTube. Some of them are just amazingly good at it, and some gamers use exploits to do things that shouldn't be possible, which is always a blast.
You know what's really horrible? Watching unboxings. That's absolutely inexcusable, the worst of late-stage capitalism. But watching gamers play well is fun.
heynow941@reddit
Really even shows like The Office that are only 20 years old have 2000ās references that would go over younger peopleās heads.
Boo-Boo97@reddit
I think a lot of early 2000's show are going to age badly because the pop culture references will lose relevance. I like the Big Bang Theory but in 10 years most kids aren't likely to understand the references to get the jokes.
Go another 10 years back to Friends and kids get bent out of shape because its not politically correct.
EverythingScrolling@reddit
That's the mistake a lot of shows make. But something like The Golden Girls is timeless.
Embarrassed-Theme996@reddit
John Hughes teen comedies. My 15 was scandalized.
LaVida2@reddit
(53) It wasnāt until college that I started watching Green Acres. I loved it. Campus cable options were minimal in the early 90s and ānick at niteā was really the only show where we could get decent reception.
bumpynuks@reddit
My gen z son loves those old shows. Barney Miller and Golden Girls are top choice for him.
MasterWinstonWolf@reddit
Barnes Miller was great... have him check out WKRP AND TAXI
If he likes Barney Miller he'll probably like these too.š
Benson was another good one.š¤£š¤£
EverythingScrolling@reddit
The Golden Girls is timeless. I didn't get a lot of the references back then, but it didn't matter.
polgara_buttercup@reddit
My teen asked to watch The Mummy with me, the Rachel Weisz Brendan Fraser one. She was entranced. We stayed up late to watch the second one, which wasnāt as enchanting. I said no to the third. She is looking forward to the new one
stromm@reddit
Why no to the third one?
EvolutionCreek@reddit
Strict no Tom Cruise rule.
EverythingScrolling@reddit
I made a strict no Tom Cruise rule back when he gave Brooke Shields a hard time for taking antidepressants.
polgara_buttercup@reddit
Very strict no Tom Cruise rule indeed
stromm@reddit
Uh, The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008) is the third film in The Mummy series. No Tom Cruise.
His movie came out in 2017 and is a failed reboot of the series. It was pretty bad even though the special effects were sweet.
EvolutionCreek@reddit
Strict no no Rachel Weisz rule.
polgara_buttercup@reddit
No Rachel, no watch
Familiar-Attempt7249@reddit
Some of the jokes were timely for the 70s-early 80s, since it was a critique of Vietnam coated in Korea, but some of the jokes were used to set the 50s tone of the era (Hawkeyeās Adolphe Menjou reference in Abbisinya Henry comes to mind. You really have to be up on your movie game if youāre Gen X or younger to know that. Also, the bit in Requiem for a Lightweight where Margaret asks if Trapperās punching bag is Franks and he responds āI thought YOU weee Frankās bagā when that was even out of date for 70s sexists)
xxRedditBullxx@reddit
Showed my daughter (who loves bees) and her husband the video for the song āNo Rainā. It features a girl dancing in a bee costume who is mocked and ridiculed by others until she finds a group of similarly dressed people who accept her as she is. I loved the message of having the courage to be your own person and eventually finding your place in the worldā¦they both thought it was about joining a cult. I felt both old and sad in a way I hadnāt felt beforeā¦
kdangelo811@reddit
Love that video! Great song too. Donāt feel old and sad. Youāre cool
athensslim@reddit
I was trying to explain the Dukes of Hazzard to my teens earlier today and felt like I kept digging and digging a deeper āwhy would anyone watch thisā hole the longer I spoke.
Krinks1@reddit
Coo coo coo! Cuff em and stuff em!
MadicalRadical@reddit
Whatās weird is almost every Gen Z kid Iāve met loves Frasier.
Ratatoskr_The_Wise@reddit
Because itās about two bitchy crybabies getting ranked by their badass old cop dad. Whatās not to love?
Crewstage8387@reddit
And Friends
EverythingScrolling@reddit
The film or sitcom?
If you meant the sitcom, which era (Blake, Potter's middle seasons, or the more serious/later seasons)?
Dramatic_Side_856@reddit
Grape nehi, please!
Pixel_in_Valhalla@reddit
I tried showing them The Goodies, which I loved after school. They...didn't love them.
ScabieBaby@reddit
I once tried to show a 19 year old Strangers With Candy. It didn't go over at all.
ThatMichaelsEmployee@reddit
Strangers With Candy is a parody of seventies and eighties afterschool specials. If you don't know the reference material, you probably won't get the show at all, so I can't blame that 19-year-old for not understanding the warped humour. (I loved it, but I was in that target age range.)
shotsallover@reddit
Thatās a show with a very specific type of humor that became the foundation for a lot of modern humor. But that modern humor all evolved past it and now itās not great in comparison.Ā
InDaFamilyJewels@reddit
Love that show but itās definitely a certain type of humor.
MoonageDayscream@reddit
My young teen does not find the rude humor of the 80s amusing, especially the stuff that is now recognized as sexual harassment or assault. I'm glad for it but it makes me mad I ever thought I had to endure that behavior.
SwiftKickRibTickler@reddit
watch Blazing Saddles together as an experiment
abeeyore@reddit
But discuss the language first. I love the movie, but itās jarring to hear that word used that way. Especially in the first several minutes.
SwiftKickRibTickler@reddit
they hear that language constantly in modern music. I know it's different. I was offended when my grandparents used those words in conversation. you aren't wrong, but this is r/GenX. we can still talk about it with love and elevated understanding.
Quirky_Might_8780@reddit
I love that about our kids. My daughter and her friend were discussing a man who made a rude comment (camel toe) about a third woman who was wearing snug pants. They were grievously offended and likened it to sexual assault/harassment. I had to check myself from asking āSo he just said something rude? He didnāt touch her or anything?ā I like that they donāt stand for shit my generation put up with as young women.
zombie_overlord@reddit
I didn't end up showing it, but True Romance is on one of the streaming channels. Probably in my top ten of all time. I was going to watch it with my son (who is trans), and rewatched some of it and it's just completely full of casual homophobic (etc) slurs. Like it was like that in the 90s, and it's a Quentin Tarantino movie, I get it. Still a great movie, and my old grizzly ass can still enjoy it, but I decided it wouldn't hold up for my very socially conscious 13yo. We ended up watching Return to Oz instead.
Odd_Praline181@reddit
LMAO the choice to go with Return to Oz as the less traumatic option is wild šš
Gonna cozy up with the original Waterhship Down next movie night?
TalFidelis@reddit
Ha. For half a second I thought you were talking about the HBO show Oz and I was worried for your 13yo!
zombie_overlord@reddit
I learned my lesson on showing them age appropriate stuff a long time ago. They were about 6 and 8 and we had a full moon and it was spooky season so I put on American Werewolf in London. We turned it off but they still slept in my room for like a month lol
I quickly realized that I need to let them set the pace.
asscheese2000@reddit
My kids have not found any genuinely scary movies scary because they cannot. Shut. The . Fuck. Up. Just constant chatter between the two of them and giggling and criticizing the movie. To be fair, it may be a coping mechanism so I let it slide. Iāll have to wait until something scary that I want them to see gets screened in a theater where they have to keep quiet to see the resultā¦
JoeNoble1973@reddit
The stuff you and I snuck downstairs to watch at that same age is now utterly beyond what my kids are prepared to handle. If my 9 yr old saw the original POLTERGEIST he would shit. His. Pants.
zombie_overlord@reddit
I watched it when I was 6 and hid behind the couch when the guy ripped his own face off.
The kids are edgy teenagers now so they're impossible to shock, but I admit it might've been too soon for American ww in London
JoeNoble1973@reddit
Yeah that facerip guy got worked over in that whole scene lol! The meatā¦
AWWiL was scary, but i didnāt catch it until I was maybe 12, so no nightmares. Just the single best damn lycathropic transformation ever set to film.
zombie_overlord@reddit
100% agree on the werewolf transformation. Gold standard for practical effects imo
bdubz74@reddit
You can still show it to them, just with a caveat. My daughter loves stand by me, breakfast club, sixteen candles, etc. She understands that it was just a different time back then.
zombie_overlord@reddit
He loves those movies. True Romance in particular has like 10x the slurs but that's pretty expected in a 90s Tarantino movie. We may watch it one day but yeah, it's going to come with a warning.
ThoseThievingBitches@reddit
Revenge of the Nerds had some - in retrospect - horrifying moments.Ā
uptnogd@reddit
Lewis in her boyfriends costume in the fun house looks horrifying now and would not watch it with my kids.
flavier2000@reddit
My daughter has yet to finish watching Neverending Story, and she is now old enough to vote.
keinFisch@reddit
Most of them never stood a chance ever since kiddo announced at age 3 that they won't watch any "skin-colored shows" (the ones with actual people, lol). Nothing but cartoons and anime and still sticking to their guns as a teenager.
CarlatheDestructor@reddit
Mine is the same way. He's grown now and the only non-cartoon movie he really likes and has watched multiple times is Groundhog Day.
JoyousZephyr@reddit
I love that he's watched Groundhog Day...over and over.
keinFisch@reddit
Ha ha, nice to learn there are others out there :)
asscheese2000@reddit
My kids enjoyed the original Blues Brothers, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and, surprisingly for how politically correct their generation is, Tropic Thunder. I think it helped that Jack Black and Iron Man were both in it.
slimninj4@reddit
Kids hated gremlins. Labyrinth, never ending story, and dark crystal. They are puppets and look so fake. Grrrr
infohippie@reddit
Trade them in for new kids
East-Garden-4557@reddit
My kids grew up watching them, I didn't wait until they were older to show them for the first time. They appreciate them because they were exposed to a wide range of movies as they grew up, not just shown them as a one off novelty that Mum liked as a kid.
Temporary_View_3303@reddit
I made my son go watch Monty Python & the Holy Grail in the theater with me a few years ago. Ā He was dead set that he wouldnāt like it⦠but I heard him chuckling through the movie. Ā
Auntie_Venom@reddit
We went to the movies for that one too⦠Seeing it that big was so much funnier, because I could see the printing dots in the illuminated manuscripts from the book, and other low budget props, that isnāt noticeable on TVs, even big ones.
newtreeguy@reddit (OP)
My kids loved Labyrinth and Dark Crystal....wife won't let them watch Gremlins
perseidot@reddit
When my kid was young enough for Gremlins, she couldnāt finish it.
But she loved ET, Labyrinth, and NES. Plus ALL of the Back to the Future movies.
Salty_Pancakes@reddit
When they are actually more real than CGI!
Educational_Seat3201@reddit
āThe princess brideā! The fact she didnāt understand the dry humor was inconceivable!
zombie_overlord@reddit
Plus it had kissing
infohippie@reddit
My grandpa promised me it would have sports
jf737@reddit
Trade her in
MaximumJones@reddit
I learned long ago, instead of trying to get my kids to understand my culture, I need to understand theirs. So I let them introduce me to new things and what is going on in THEIR lives. I think that is part of the "formula" for why we are all still close.
East-Garden-4557@reddit
With my kids the sharing goes both ways and never stops. Music, movies, tv shows, but music is the main one. We don't expect to like everything shared with us, but what we do is discuss it. The person sharing explains why they are sharing, what they enjoy about it, why they think the person will enjoy it.
I have one teenager and the rest are adults now, we all still share media frequently.
EvolutionCreek@reddit
I tried to prove my rizz by shouting ā6-7ā at my kids but they just groaned.
perseidot@reddit
We work both ways. I find out about Gen Z stuff, she finds out about Gen X stuff. It might have helped that the 80s made a comeback.
Balrog71@reddit
A little to the opposite I guess, but my daughter messaged me when her husband watched Blazing Saddles for the first time, and later on when she played The Who-Quadrophenia for a visitor. Melts my heart
BeBopBarr@reddit
Monty Python & the Holy Grail one of my favs and they hated it š
SamHandwich0@reddit
My now 20 yr old loved it at 13. Got him on a whole kick, he got into the the flying circus and all.
Lots of great 'inside jokes' with him over it.
DandelionPopsicle@reddit
Same. My gen z daughter watched a ton of movies I considered important, and liked most of them, but Monty python she just thought was profoundly stupid. Rewatching it, it is very slow paced compared to modern films I guess.
Relevant-Arm-3711@reddit
Thatās a bummer! My Millennial and Gen Z daughters totally get the Holy Grail, but my Gen X wife thinks itās the dumbest thing ever, lol.
More_Law6245@reddit
Oh definitely Austin Powers, especially when Patrick Roberts is walking towards the mirth mobile as it still makes me laugh hard to this day. I was promptly asked if I needed to do a drug test.
ChaosRainbow23@reddit
My kids know damn good and well I'll fail for weed.
Alternative_Sort_404@reddit
Yeah - I was bummed when my son didnāt get Austin Powers (esp because weāve watched a lot of British humor and James Bond)š¤·āāļø Oh, the irony
DrumsKing@reddit
Even when I was 13, MASH was a Boomer show to me. Never liked it. (1973)
perseidot@reddit
Oh wow - 1974 here, I watched it with my parents and loved it. Watched it again with my Gen Z kiddo and she did too!
amachan43@reddit
Also loved it. Then fell in love with the movie when I was older. Still in the top 10 for me. Really unique style of storytelling.
somePig_buckeye@reddit
I watched the show in real time and reruns as a kid. I still watch it occasionally. I finally watched the film a month ago. I liked it and was totally prepared not to.
Psyknosis7@reddit
One of Robert Altmanās masterpieces. Was really the first movie that had a dialogue style of multiple conversations going at once between different characters at the same time making rooms feel more alive and real. Movies up to that point would be closer to plays and just have dialogue between main characters that was important. It was ground breaking just for that aspect let alone adapting an amazing book and showing a different side of war with both a serious side and comedic side.
jf737@reddit
Same. I really liked watching MASH reruns
Auntie_Venom@reddit
I absolutely hated it⦠To this day when I hear the song, I roll my eyes, start to twitch and look for the quickest exit, then realize I just have to change the channel.
I got the jokes, I just didnāt think it was funny. Except Klinger, he was the only saving grace.
TheoSidle@reddit
Also 1973. I watched it with my Dad when I was a kid,Ā and I loved it.Ā
Individual_Note_8756@reddit
I loved it! Early Gen X, 1966.
Dont_Care_Meh@reddit
Same.('72) The boomer level was off the charts. I didn't like it then, don't like it now.
poss-um@reddit
On the contrary, my son and I laugh our asses off at Family Guy, together. Thank you, Seth MacFarlane. Thank you.
CrimsonDawn1970@reddit
The funniest show
Cynicastic@reddit
Sadly, Blazing Saddles. Now the young kids won't take ANY movie recommendations from me.
CrimsonDawn1970@reddit
Awww man lol
Few_Explanation1170@reddit
Ooh, we tried to show this to our 12 year old about 6 weeks ago. She was horrified at how often they used the n word. We tried to explain the movie was antiracist, and to please stick around, but she wasnāt having it. She left after about 10 minutes.
amachan43@reddit
Iāll tell you what they DID like: Spaceballs. Dick jokes in space transcend generation gaps. āļøš½
stromm@reddit
Monty Python. Every kid over ten needs to watch some at least.
thiswasyouridea@reddit
That's Mel Brooks for ya. Dick jokes in the wild west, dick jokes in medieval times, dick jokes in space...
zombie_overlord@reddit
Yup. Spaceballs was a hit with my kids too.
stromm@reddit
My son is 36, my daughter passed last year at 31. Once they hit ten, we only restricted gratuitous violence and sex and of course porn. Once they hit sixteen we didnāt limit anything but we definitely discussed things so they knew the violence and porn was fake stuff and not ok in the real world.
Having an open dialogue with your kids and letting them decide what they like or not, even if itās not the same as you is extremely important for their self worth and success as adults.
bleeding_eyes@reddit
Iām sorry for your loss.
Approval_is_Pending@reddit
Risky Business and Smokey and the Bandit were flops with the kids. Kids are 16 and 19 and 22
canfullofworms@reddit
Aww. Smokey and the Bandit?
AardvarkAapocolypse@reddit
Zoolander. If you didn't live through the era of Supermodels then the joke of male supermodels being a thing doesn't really land. Also, there were a lot of celebrity cameos of celebrities that were from before GenZ's time.
Boo-Boo97@reddit
Yeah, I don't get why people think Zoolander is funny. I found it to be one of the dumbest movies ever.
jf737@reddit
Itās supposed to be dumb. Thatās part of the joke.
Alternative_Sort_404@reddit
Not gonna downvote you - itās a generational thing. If you werenāt old enough through THAT time (ā80-mid90ās)⦠it probably makes no sense
shotsallover@reddit
Thatās part of the humor. That itās dumb.Ā
Narrow-Research-5730@reddit
Blazing Saddles. It didn't go over well at all.
MrBiscotti_75@reddit
Mongo only pawn in the game of life
Not_Henry_Winkler@reddit
Shit, I watched it with my millennial girlfriend and her friends 15 years ago and it was an awkward night.Ā
Rob1150@reddit
That new Sheriff should be getting here soon.
Not_Henry_Winkler@reddit
He said the sheriff is a'near!
SleepWithRockStars@reddit
Same
Both_Chicken_666@reddit
I tried to show my son Ducktales (Scrooge, Launchpad, Huey, Dewey, Louie etc) and he was just like "oh, a show about ducks."
thiswasyouridea@reddit
To be fair, the theme song is better than the show. Rescue Rangers was better anyway.
SandyLomme@reddit
Woo-oo!
Rob1150@reddit
I wish you hadn't done that. I am brutally susceptible to earworms.
LadyNorbert@reddit
I am horrified
oldfogey12345@reddit
I dont have kids, but i couldn't imagine many of those sitcoms that relied on no one communicating.
Rob1150@reddit
I thought that was the actual definition of sitcom.
thiswasyouridea@reddit
A lot of misunderstanding humor in sitcoms. But there can also be fish out of water type humor, or odd couple type humor, or just the kind that's based on people's personalities.
Yuck_Few@reddit
Three's company was one of the best at comical misunderstandings
thiswasyouridea@reddit
"Today on Three's Company, a misunderstanding leads to hijinks!" Every day forever.
LisaMiaSisu@reddit
Goonies. TBF, I was never a fan either. Let the downvotes commence!
duchess_of_nothing@reddit
I watched it for the first time in my 40s and I didn't enjoy it. I was a few years too old for it when it came out. my millennial friends were so excited to see it in a theater just before Covid and I was bored out of my mind.
eric44051@reddit
Yeah, it came out right after I graduated high school so I knew I was a little too old for it and it wasnāt my cup of tea anyway. After hearing so much about it, I decided to watch it for the first time last year and⦠It was completely unwatchable. I forced myself to watch about half of it. Ugh.
PurplePenguinCat@reddit
I was also in my 40s the first (only) time I watched it. My husband loves it. My teenager enjoyed it enough. But I found it eh. Not great. Not terrible. I can absolutely live the rest of my life without seeing it again.
medisamurai@reddit
seems like an age and gender thing. i think under about 11ish when it came out and you'll like it. so many 80s movies had some hard caps(from person to person) on what age you could be to like it. once i got a car any kid movie seemed dumb to me
eric44051@reddit
You wanna see the downvotes commence...Goonies sucks! :-)
LimeSalty4092@reddit
As a kid I actually walked out of GooniesĀ after the first 30 minutes bc it was too vulgarĀ
The whole extended scene where they break and attempt to fix the penis on the statue of David went on way way too longĀ
An extended dick joke doesnāt really play for a 9yo girl, so I was disgusted and left the roomĀ
SnooBooks007@reddit
I used to live that movie as a kid, but I saw it recently and yikes!
It's just a bunch of annoying prurient children who won't shut up or sit still for a moment. Awful!
thelimeisgreen@reddit
Like many of us, I saw The Goonies when the movie first came out. Owned the VHS tape, watched it a fair number of times. Then didn't see it for a long time. I introduced my kids to it when they were like 9 and 10 years old... They enjoyed it. But oh, damn was it painful to watch. I instantly understood why my dad hated the movie and why he was visibly uncomfortable sitting through it. It's just super annoying and it doesn't flow, too much screaming and yeah, I wish I hadn't re-watched because it ruined my fond memories of it.
My kids are in their 20's now. They love older movies in general. There's a lot from the 80s that are just still fun and hold up alright. Some haven't aged well, but almost of them just feel like watching a movie set in a given time as opposed to a present-day tale when they were new. Goonies didn't hold up for me, or my kids. Oh, well...
rcook55@reddit
Nah, Goonies is actually pretty lame on re-watch, the middle of the movie is bad. But I think a lot of movies of that time were similar and it's funny how we blank out the suck.
LadyNorbert@reddit
I'll admit it - I never got into Goonies either.
REDDITSHITLORD@reddit
It has its moments, but it hasn't aged well. A lot of the tropes are archaic and the pop-culture references are DOA.
mam88k@reddit
When my kid was younger we bonded watching Teen Titans Go and The Tick. Wicked sharp humor with that one.
Bad-job-dad@reddit
Gremlins was bad idea.Ā
Appropriate_Cow94@reddit
It's far darker than we usually remember. My kid fave not shits about it.
Loved Breakfast Club and 16 Candles though.
lancerreddit@reddit
MASH was sooooo boring to me too
bdubz74@reddit
I used to hate it as a kid when my dad watched it. I might like it now, but idk. Iāll still watch Sanford and Son though. That shit was hilarious.
Scarecrow426@reddit
When my kids were younger, we were driving somewhere. I had the 80s channel on the radio, and they played Eddie Murphy's "Party All The Time". My wife and I explained that the guy singing was Donkey from Shrek and the dragon from Mulan. They did not care one bit.
whatsamattafuhyou@reddit
Dr Strangelove Life of Brian
Alternative_Sort_404@reddit
My kid knows Monty Python, but havenāt really sprung the brainy stuff on him yetā¦
gjohill@reddit
I remember parts of M.A.S.H. where I didn't understand the humor. Same with a lot of stuff. Barney Miller, Taxi, even Looney Toons. So I tried to find out why it was funny. What did that mean. Now it's just "fuck it, that was the 1900's, we don't understand".
dburst_@reddit
My GenX parents showed me MASH around that age and I loved it. Didnāt get every joke but still found it funny. Moving from Michigan to North Dakota may have helped considering it felt like a whole other crappy world compared to my home. Still in ND and I feel like Iām in enemy territory š
Brock_Savage@reddit
MASH wasn't funny when I was a child, either.
slimninj4@reddit
was not funny to me as a kid either but the one episode with the maniquins in the river, that for some reason always stayed with me. I didnt understand it, but it was creepy and sad. i could not understand why my parents wanted to watch a show so serious.
heynow941@reddit
That was the nightmare episode.
perseidot@reddit
I did get a lot of the jokes - but the occasional serious episode, like that one, really stayed with me, too.
Bubbafett33@reddit
Knight Rider isnāt quite as amazing upon a re-watch with the kidsā¦
newtreeguy@reddit (OP)
I was trying to describe Knight Rider to my kids. Every time I mentioned of the features of KIT he said "like a cybertruck?"
misimalu@reddit
Ghostbusters because of the smoking. My kids were utterly fixated on and confused by the smoking. There is a lot of smoking.
Rob1150@reddit
I know that Sigourney Weaver was...
-Granby-@reddit
It is hit or miss with my daughter. She is 14. Didn't really care about the Goonies. She got obsessed with a few though. Phantasm. Puppet Master. The original Texas Chainsaw. There are posters on her wall and patches on her battle jacket. Also loves Wayne's World and Bill and Ted.
Didn't care for E.T. or Short Circuit.
Goodrun31@reddit
When the mash song comes on I am asleep within 5 minutes. Itās just engrained
PurplePenguinCat@reddit
My husband is the same. He used to fall asleep watching reruns as a kid.
Rob1150@reddit
I literally have never seen Fantasia all the way through because I always fall asleep somewhere during the movie
thejohnmc963@reddit
I used to watch it 11-13 with my Grandma. We had a blast and I enjoyed the jokes/show
SirLanceNotsomuch@reddit
Thereās a post up on hypotheticals about one of your appliances being sentient and hating you, and I had a GREAT Mr. Mom joke (the vacuum cleaner, Jaws), realized no one there would get it, and sadly slunk away. ā¹ļøā¹ļøā¹ļø
BatteryChucker@reddit
FakeNameSoIcnBhonest@reddit
Austin Powers. I thought he would think Fat Bastard would be funny. He did not.
MoneyWiseLawyer@reddit
Seinfeld. He was frustrated at the Chinese restaurant because why was George waiting for a pay phone? Why didnāt they order dinner on Postmates?
Odditeee@reddit
I was 12 when we, the whole family (my Dad, Mom, little sister, and Nana) gathered around the olā āray tube to watch the series finale. That was the first time Iād ever cried because of something Iād watched on television. Ā
We had watched the show regularly for years prior. Ā I remember it (and so many other amazingly fun shows back then) fondly.Ā
Following those silly serial shows in the late ā70s early ā80s was fun, as I remember it, as a kid.Ā
ShowLasers@reddit
Wait til he's older. Mine watched it all in his 20's and was floored. It's a black comedy that touched on meaningful and resonant topics and I think takes some age and perspective to really appreciate.
LisaMiaSisu@reddit
This. I got my 34 year old daughter into Columbo and she watches All In the Family with me when she visits.
worstpartyever@reddit
Archieās jokes still land the same
Imverystupidgenx@reddit
They got all mopey after Old Yeller ended.
SleepWithRockStars@reddit
Rewatched The Breakfast Club with my then 14yo. What had been teen-me's favorite movie Did Not Hold Up.
My kid was so confused by the characters.
PepsiOfWrath@reddit
So so, so so so much, but unlike MAS*H I realized a lot of what I really loved didnāt actually hold up, and it wasnāt necessarily well written. Ā Content is just superior now for a lot of things.